Shoe.



E. PERSSON.

SHOE. APPLICATION FILED APR. 5, 1916.

Patented Mar. 20, 1917.

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SHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 20, 1917.

Application filed April 5, 1916. Serial No. 89,245.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, EMANUEL Pnnsson, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Yule Meadow, in the Province of Alberta. in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in shoes and more particularly to novel means for fastening the same and its object is to provide a shoe that at all times presents a neat appearance upon the foot of the wearer. Another object is to provide a shoe that may be readily fastened or unfastened and that is easily adjustable to fit the foot. Vi ith the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described in the following specification, pointed out in the claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of said specification and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved shoe in open position.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the shoe fastened.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary detail.

Fig. 4% is a. similar view illustrating a slight modification.

Like reference characters denote correspending parts throughout the several views.

The reference numeral 1 denotes the vamp of a shoe and 2 the upper and along one edge of the latter a pluralitv of teats 3 are formed which may be formed integral with the upper as shown in Fig. 8, or which may be sewed to the upper as shown in Fig. &. The teats are spaced apart, much in the manner of ordinary shoe buttons, and are adapted to project over the opposite edge of the upper when the shoe is fastened. The upper edge provided with the said teats is perforated above and below the same as at l, 5 respec tively to accolnmmlate the shoe string (3 which is laced through perforations 7 in the opposite edge of the upper.

One end of the string (3 is knotted inside the shoe and then passed through the perforation 5 and then through the perforations T, and loops 8 formed on the outside of the upper, and then through the perforation 4 and then back through perforations 9 when the end is knotted in any suitable manner. Before this end of the string is knotted, however, the edges of the upper are drawn together and the teats 3 passed into the loops 8 and the string then drawn tight as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and the shoe is fastened. To unfasten the shoe the string is loosened again and the upper edges drawn away from each other thus disengaging the said teats from the loops in the string.

hat is claimed is: i

A shoe having an upper provided with edges adapted to be laced together to secure the shoe on the foot, said upper being formed with perforations adjacent said edges, teats projecting from one of said edges and adapted to overlap the other edge, and a lace laced through said perforations in such manner as to form loops adapted to receive said teats and thereby hold. said edges together.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiiXed my signature .in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMANUEL PERSSON. lVitnesses Animus BERGLIN, L. F. Pnnsson.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

